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Ever sure of himself, Donald Trump paid a visit to the Mexico border Thursday and predicted Hispanics would love him — "they already do" — because as president he'd grab jobs back from overseas and give more opportunity to those who live in the U.S. legally. "There's great danger with the illegals," the Republican presidential contender told reporters. But he claimed a "great relationship" with Hispanics, even as Latino leaders have come at him with blistering criticism for his painting Mexican immigrants as criminals. "I'll take jobs back from China, I'll take jobs back from Japan," Trump said. "The Hispanics...

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Ever sure of himself, Donald Trump paid a visit to the Mexico border Thursday and predicted Hispanics would love him — "they already do" — because as president he'd grab jobs back from overseas and give more opportunity to those who live in...

Brookfield Zoo has opened the polls for voting on the names for its Mexican gray wolf puppies, born at the end of May. One of the male puppies will bear the name Nestor, in honor of a wolf who used to reside at Brookfield Zoo. But the public is invited to...

Donald Trump is on his way to the Mexican border, the latest event in a presidential campaign some of his rivals would like to dismiss as a sideshow — a "carnival act," as one puts it. But he's been stealing their thunder for days and left...

Mexico's most powerful drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, has a lot to catch up on as he returns to a drug-trafficking landscape that has shifted considerably during his 17 months behind bars.
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Citing the growth of urban sprawl and a need for more Mexican-American elected officials, "Breaking Bad" actor Steven Michael Quezada said he is jumping in a heated race for county commissioner in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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A Mexican federal official said Friday that seven people who were being questioned in the jailbreak of drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman have been formally arrested and taken to a prison to await charges.
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Joaquim Guzman Loera — the murderous drug lord known as El Chapo — was housed in a 6-foot by 10-foot cell in the high-security wing of Mexico's most-closely guarded prison. To get in, he passed through 17 sets of electronic gates.
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Mexico's most prized prisoner paced his cell, first to the latrine, then the shower, then the bed. At every turn around the tiny room, drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman checked the shower floor hidden by a half wall, because even jailed...

Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, the most wanted of Mexico's drug lords, would have breezed along the mile-long tunnel dug just for him on a specially modified motorcycle or one of the two carts it pushed on two steel rails.
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Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's weekend escape from Mexico's highest-security prison didn't surprise former prosecutors who helped indict the Sinaloa cartel leader in Chicago in 2009 — after all, he had made another breakout in 2001. But that didn't...

Mexico's most notorious drug trafficker began plotting to break out of prison almost immediately after his recapture at a seaside resort in February 2014.
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To build a tunnel about a mile long and 30 feet below Mexico's highest-security prison, the rescuers of drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán would have needed to haul away several hundred truckloads of earth, and used excavating...

The digging would have caused noise. The planners would have needed blueprints and maps. The escape was made from the one place beyond the view of security cameras at Mexico's toughest prison.
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A mother accused of child abuse and fleeing police after a chaotic 2013 traffic stop in which a New Mexico officer shot at her minivan full of children has been sentenced to six months of unsupervised probation.
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The capture of drug lord Joaquin Guzman was the crowning achievement of President Enrique Pena Nieto's government in its war against drug cartels, a beacon of success amid domestic woes. That makes the bold escape by "El Chapo" from a maximum...

Mexico mounted an all-out manhunt Sunday for its most powerful drug lord, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, who escaped from a maximum security prison through a 1.5-kilometer (1 mile) tunnel from a small opening in the shower area of his cell,...

Reactions in the United States to the escape from Mexican prison of a reputed drug lord ranged from disbelief to outrage, with some observers saying it dramatically illustrated the need for captured cartel kingpins to be promptly extradited to the U.S.
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Key dates in the career of drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman who escaped from Mexico's top security prison, leading to an international manhunt Sunday.
April 4, 1957: Guzman born in the Sinaloa state mountain town of Badiraguato, according to...

"What can be simpler or more accurately stated? The Mexican government is forcing their most unwanted people into the United States. They are, in many cases, criminals, drug dealers, rapists, etc."
—GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump, Your...